Cautionary Verses for Childish Adults

From the dangers of eating cabbage to the inadvisability of rotten eggs, from punch-ups at a village fair to larceny, forgery and insanity "Cautionary Verses for Childish Adults" will ensure you laugh all the way to the asylum. This superbly illustrated volume is a collector's piece that will go down in the annals of history as a brazen attempt to subvert the canon of English literature. More

From the dangers of eating cabbage to the inadvisability of rotten eggs, from punch-ups at a village fair to larceny, forgery and insanity "Cautionary Verses for Childish Adults" will ensure that your barely-suppressed titters receive funny looks from your fellow train passengers. This superbly illustrated volume is a collector's piece that will go down in the annals of history as one of the most brazen attempts to subvert the canon of English literature with heavily-salted doggerel.

Originally from Scotland, Sean O'Neill has traveled a bit, including living in Ireland, England (twice), Italy and the USA - which is where he currently resides. He worked as a freelance journalist for about seven years in the UK, and had a regular weekly column in national Sunday newspapers. Sean has had poetry, short stories and articles published in a variety of publications. To date, he has published six books of poetry and two books of light verse. He has also published six novels which range from thigh-slapping funny, to nail-biting tense, and every possible nuance in between, along with four non-fiction books on the art and practice of writing and publishing. All of his books are available on online book retailers. When he is not publishing books, Sean works as a translator and has translated numerous foreign-language books into English.